I probably have more accessible from outside than not. Many are required: hosting a website, a media server I can access from anywhere outside the house, my phone system, etc. Some I used to use more than I do now: podcast service, that sort of thing. Then a bunch that are internal only. My phone connects home over Wireguard so that’s pretty convenient when out and about for accessing internal only systems.
As soon as you have a requirement for large reliable storage then you’re on to at least the small desktop arena with a few HDD at which point it’s more efficient to just have the small pc and ditch the RPI.
Depends where you draw the line of the home lab. I’m drawing 160W at the moment, but that includes a dedicated CCTV PC (running Proxmox in a cluster) and POE switch. The CCTV I don’t consider part of the home lab really, the alternative would be an off the shelf box and no one would consider that.
The 160W also includes a 24 port switch (I’m only using 8) and the FTTP power, plus the rake from the UPS. So probably total the actual homelab server would be about 80-100, I guess. But even then it runs my router using opnsense, so I don’t have a separate router box to power. It also serves as my “cloud” storage, so I’m not saving watts, but I’m saving the cost there.
I could get the power down quite a bit by changing the 6 HDD for 2 mirrored HDD, but the cost of large enough disks means it’d be years before it paid for itself, so I’m sticking with 6 small disks for now.
I’ve thought about trimming things down and going lower powered, but it all comes back to storage and needing the large storage online all the time.
Plus I consider a 100W a big saving when before I ran a dual Xeon Dell R710 which used around 225W under the same workload.
Oh no!
Anyway…
Been on Proxmox for a couple of years and it’s been great.
They’re documented, but it’s a big and ever expanding list.
If we didn’t have a bazillion TLDs these days we’d be ok and everyone can carry on using .local or .lan and be happy that they’re not real TLDs. Now when anything could be a TLD because every word you’ve ever heard is a TLD, you don’t know if its real or not.
Can you recommend a mail server docker image like that? I have a hand cranked iredmail server that I’ve been babying for 5 years but I want to move it to either docker or an LXC.
I’ve been using Nextcloud for years and it has never performed well but I always put that down to my disks being slow.
It has gotten quicker over time, but not hugely.
I rarely use the web interface, I just use the mobile app to sync photos from my phone then everything on my network runs over NFS. It even that was a pain to get working with permissions with NC.
Now I want to try OC. I think the reason I went with NC was because it was meant to be the new and better developed OC after a bunch of OC devs left to form NC.
How do you block the DoH servers in the pihole? Pihole is a DNS server, devices using a third party DoH server would just bypass the pihole as they’re using the IP of the DoH with no DNS lookup required. No?
To block DoH I think you need to block it at the firewall level with a list of blocked IPs for the DoH servers you want to block over 443
Best you can do is maintain a list of public DoH IPs and block them. Redirect all port 53 traffic to your own DNS server.
Sounds like you could use an old fashioned FTP server
Networking I really like TP-Link with their Omada range. It’s like Ubiquity.
Spinning Disk drives I always go Hitachi now.
USB thumb drives SanDisk have been pretty good for me.
Cables I like Ugreen, chargers I like Anker.
I think you want to be searching for 4u rackmount server cases like these https://www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer-hardware/cases/4u-rackmount-server-cases
Not what you asked, but I’ve been very happy with my TPLink EAP WAP. You dont need to use a cloud account with it if you dont want to. Nice management interface that’s doing it’s best UniFi impression.
Gitea here for me too, works a treat
I’ve been using Lychee for photo sharing with family for the past few months. Works really quickly, simply, plus it looks good.